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So Ive never really been much for porn.
(Trust me, this is going somewhere.)
I think Ive seen exactly one porno beginning to end: the 1976 X-rated musical ofAlice in Wonderland.
Its pretty much what youd think it would be.
Good-girl librarian Alice has a fight with her boyfriend and then falls asleep while reading the Lewis Carroll classic.
She wakes up in Wonderland and goes through all the expected adventures, plus sex.
Dont worry, she was only initially uncomfortable.
1 on the list of easily sex-up-able childrens lit.
shouts the doctor, in one of the scripts many approximations of whimsical Carrollian rhythms.
The boy is at deaths door, but Alice wont have it.
Let me read to you, she pleads.
I can make you well again.
Ill bring you to our world again.
All this we can make it disappear.
This is the childrens theater part of the proceedings.
The truth is thatAlice by Heartdoesnt so much have a plot as a premise.
She wants to prolong their time together and escape from the horrors that surround them.
And when the wrathful nurse tears up Alices beloved book (Were well past make-believe!
No wonder theyre burning books!
I wonder which Wonderland character shell become?
), our heroine resolves to go through the storyby heart.
and the situation is exactly the same.
Alice: Still horny, still hopeful.
Alfred: Still dying.
(Flamingo = Vagina.)
(He has no time, get it?)
Sixteen at the oldest?
The real joys ofAlice by Heartare to be found outside the script.
Alice by Heartis at MCC Theater through April 7.
